The phrase "a neutral sense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a perspective or interpretation that is unbiased or impartial.
Example: "In a neutral sense, the data can be interpreted in various ways depending on the context."
Alternatives: "an unbiased perspective" or "a nonpartisan view".
Huntington claims that he is using "nativism" in only a "neutral" sense, to mean "intense opposition to an internal minority on the ground of its foreign (i.e., 'un-American') connections" (here he is quoting Higham).
I am curious about approaches that accede that neither might be ideal or preferential, but in a neutral sense both humans adapting to tools and tools to humans might be used in different contexts or in combination to fulfill specific objectives.
For example, "consumer": "In almost all its early English uses, consume had an unfavourable sense; it meant to destroy, to use up, to waste … It was from C18 that consumer began to emerge in a neutral sense in descriptions of [the] economy … In C20 … the predominance of the capitalist model ensured its widespread and often overwhelming extension to such fields as politics, education and health".
Intelligent White Balancing Now don't run screaming from the room white balance isn't that scary, it's just an attempt to get a neutral sense of what white (and every other color) will look like under various lighting conditions.
They were using the word in a neutral sense, as someone who is passionate about exploring and breaking stuff, but not necessarily with the intention of doing evil.
In this model, genomes undergo birth-death processes in a neutral sense and also acquire and lose genes which we term "gene transfer".
Seacole was proud of her Scottish ancestry and called herself a Creole, a term that was commonly used in a racially neutral sense or to refer to the children of white settlers.
I'm using the term "commercial" in a really neutral sense; I'm not putting anything on it.
Debates are a form of propaganda in the neutral sense of the word: They are occasions for parties to make their respective arguments.
Dozens and dozens of them exist," The Slants bassist Simon Tam told VICE News correspondent Dexter Thomas in Baltimore, MD. "Most of them are held by Caucasian people who either are using it, quote-unquote, in 'a neutral sense' or in a denigrating sense".
One way of taking account of this is by speaking (as above) explicitly of the philosophies (in the plural) of the Vienna Circle (and to avoid the singular definite description) while using the expression "Vienna Circle philosophy" (without an article) in a neutral generic sense.
